Liberia - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Liberia was 77.59 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 95.15 in 1987 and 77.59 in 2020.

Definition: Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on age distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

See also:

Year Value
1960 79.49
1961 80.65
1962 82.01
1963 83.39
1964 84.45
1965 85.04
1966 86.42
1967 87.22
1968 87.60
1969 87.77
1970 87.87
1971 88.79
1972 89.45
1973 89.92
1974 90.21
1975 90.37
1976 91.26
1977 91.82
1978 92.15
1979 92.37
1980 92.58
1981 93.41
1982 94.13
1983 94.70
1984 94.87
1985 94.39
1986 94.98
1987 95.15
1988 94.84
1989 94.12
1990 93.09
1991 92.62
1992 91.58
1993 90.21
1994 89.01
1995 88.60
1996 87.91
1997 87.32
1998 86.96
1999 86.56
2000 85.75
2001 86.16
2002 86.30
2003 86.16
2004 86.00
2005 86.06
2006 86.37
2007 86.64
2008 86.86
2009 86.86
2010 86.49
2011 86.16
2012 85.58
2013 84.77
2014 83.79
2015 82.71
2016 81.82
2017 80.84
2018 79.79
2019 78.69
2020 77.59

Development Relevance: Patterns of development in a country are partly determined by the age composition of its population. Different age groups have different impacts on both the environment and on infrastructure needs. Therefore the age structure of a population is useful for analyzing resource use and formulating future policy and planning goals with regards infrastructure and development.

Limitations and Exceptions: Because the five-year age group is the cohort unit and five-year period data are used in the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects, interpolations to obtain annual data or single age structure may not reflect actual events or age composition. For more information, see the original source.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Dependency ratios capture variations in the proportions of children, elderly people, and working-age people in the population that imply the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. But dependency ratios show only the age composition of a population, not economic dependency. Some children and elderly people are part of the labor force, and many working-age people are not. Age structure in the World Bank's population estimates is based on the age structure in United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects. For more information, see the original source.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Relevance to gender indicator: this indicator implies the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. Many times single or widowed women who are the sole caregiver of a household have a high dependency

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population